All releases of Perl Object Environment

Release Notes: The documentation rewrite reached its complete first-draft milestone. An estimated 120 pages have been revised for this release. Compatibility issues and platform-specific edge cases, where identified, have been resolved. This includes the notorious F_GETFL and F_SETFL prototype mismatch warnings on Windows. An experimental run_while() method has been added to POE::Kernel. Please contact the mailing list if it's useful and/or broken.

Release Notes: A number of stability and performance fixes were
done, including making the tests less prone to
race conditions, improving the installation
process, eliminating known resource leaks, and
reducing CPU use when combined with Tk.

Release Notes: The speed was improved by 20-40% in naive benchmarks.
The documentation was clarified and updated, and support
for versions of Perl earlier than 5.6.1 was improved.
Portability to Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X was
improved, and various bugs were fixed.

Release Notes: The mandatory signal warnings became errors, as
per the signal reforms schedule on the Web site.
Performance was enhanced, mainly by increasing
default block and buffer sizes. Wheel::ReadWrite
watermarks were also fixed for better streaming.
Windows support was enhanced. A lot of effort was
spent making POE conform to ActiveState's
automated PPD build framework. Initial support was
added for user-extensibility. Pluggable APIs,
event loops, and back-end data resources were
added.

Release Notes: Internal inconsistencies and memory leaks were fixed. Documentation was improved. Minor features were added. Everyone is recommended to upgrade, especially if they have noticed memory bloat or "internal inconsistency" crashes.

Release Notes: ActivePerl 5.8.0 support was added, as was support for Gentoo Linux. A couple of subtle bugs in POE's events and signals dispatchers were found and fixed. The TCP client and server components were enhanced, too.